17-letter words containing k, s
- overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
- parker house roll — a soft dinner roll made by folding a flat disk of dough in half.
- particle kinetics — Particle kinetics is the study of the movement of particles and the forces that cause this movement.
- parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
- perth and kinross — a council area of N central Scotland, corresponding mainly to the historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire: part of Tayside Region from 1975 until 1996: chiefly mountainous, with agriculture, tourism, and forestry. Administrative centre: Perth. Pop: 135 990 (2003 est). Area: 5321 sq km (2019 sq miles)
- philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- pick the eyes out — to select the best parts or pieces (of)
- pinckney's treaty — an agreement in 1795 between Spain and the U.S. by which Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the southern boundary of the U.S. and permitted free navigation of the Mississippi to American ships.
- pink-footed goose — a Eurasian goose, Anser brachyrhynchus, having a reddish-brown head, pink legs, and a pink band on its black beak
- planck's constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
- pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
- porterhouse steak — large cut of beef loin
- positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- positive thinking — an optimistic attitude
- preemptive strike — preventive war.
- publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
- put the kibosh on — nonsense.
- quarterback sneak — a play in which the quarterback charges into the middle of the line, usually immediately after receiving the ball from the center.
- rack one's brains — to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
- red-backed shrike — a common Eurasian shrike, Lanius collurio, the male of which has a grey crown and rump, brown wings and back, and a black-and-white face
- registered stocks — stocks officially registered to the name of the owner
- retention of risk — Retention of risk is the net amount of any risk which an insurance company does not reinsure but keeps for its own account.
- rocket propulsion — propulsion of an object by thrust developed by a rocket.
- russian turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- rybinsk reservoir — a vast water reservoir in W central Russia on the River Volga and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam
- sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
- saint kitts-nevis — a twin-island state in the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies, consisting of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis: formerly a British colony and member of the West Indies Associated States; gained independence 1983. 104 sq. mi. (269 sq. km). Capital: Basseterre.
- sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
- second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
- second-hand smoke — from sb else's cigarette
- securities market — the market in stocks, shares, bonds and other securities
- self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
- semi-skimmed milk — half-fat dairy product
- settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
- severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
- shake one's booty — to dance
- shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
- shubra al khaymah — a city in NE Egypt, a Cairo suburb.
- sickle cell trait — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- silk manufacturer — a person or business that is involved in the manufacture of silk thread and fabric
- silk-screen print — a type of print made with a stencil and a fine mesh screen. Ink is applied to and forced through the small holes in the screen leaving the covered area free from ink
- single-sided disk — a disk that used only one side for recording data
- single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
- six o'clock swill — a period of heavy drinking, esp during the years when hotels had to close their bars at 6.00 p.m.
- skate on thin ice — to place oneself in a dangerous or delicate situation
- skin of our teeth — a play (1942) by Thornton Wilder.
- sleeping sickness — Also called African sleeping sickness, African trypanosomiasis. a generally fatal disease, common in parts of Africa, characterized by fever, wasting, and progressive lethargy: caused by a parasitic protozoan, Trypanosoma gambiense or T. rhodesiense, that is carried by a tsetse fly, Glossina palpalis.
- smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
- smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.